W. E. B. Dubois The Negro Problem Summary

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"W. E. B." Du Bois was born in February 1868 and died in 1963, he was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author and editor. Du Bois earned his Ph.D. in History and founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909. In 1915 Du Bois wrote The Negro, which is a small book about the impact of slavery and black history in the Caribbean and United States. In the eleventh chapter of the book Du Bois speaks about “Negro Problem” and solutions suggested by whites and also himself.
The “Negro problem” that Du Bois contently refers to thought this chapter is the Negro will never been seen as an equal in the world, where slavery once existed. The idea that white dominance over all other races came about and these races would have to become like the white race or killed off before their “all-conquering march”. These concept influenced the expansion of Europe to African and also the slave trade. Slavery and colonialism destroyed the Negros institution, leaving them no one else to follow but the European and white American.
Black’s inherited a lower class though slavery, so Europeans thought blacks could rise up and become apart or the working class like Europeans and white
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Black’s works on “land monopoly, taxation, and had little to no education”. The industrial has worked for very little wages and did not have the knowledge to come together and form a union. This suggestion did last for a while until commerce starts to spread. In the fourth suggestion Europeans and white Americans began to accept and let blacks develop on their own, they are not like whites. The idea is to like them rule their selves, assembly, have courts, and native social and family lives. This idea seemed fair but the motive for the European people is to use their land, organization, and people for their own

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